The Indian Navy has successfully prevented the hijacking of a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. Unlike us they don't have their hands tied by worries that captured pirates will claim asylum under human rights legislation once they have been detained.

Indeed. I remember the past, when ships used to reflag with the Red Ensign to get RN protection.

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Are those the days when the RN enaged in warfighting, not Gay Pride

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That would almost be funny........
Except its just not is it? Sooner or later somebody will have to pay for what has been done to this country.

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No they won't. The people responsible will retire to tax havens to write memoirs like Tony, or trade their address books for directorships like Patricia Hewitt. or, god help us, they'll become 'media celebrities' like Prezza - making a living talking about toilets on telly.

I gave a course to the Indian Navy some years ago and they seriously impressed me. Very professional officers and senior NCOs - although I wished that they'd do something about the rats running around the place.

Long ago, but I recall the six Indian officers in my term coming in the first dozen in the passing out exams (out of 100+). Pakistan per contra, all 5 of them in the last dozen. One of them had already starred by trying to put oil into a boat's engine through the dipstick hole.

Not always on wavelength though: ex-Viceroy Mountbatten at passing-out Divisions to Indian cadet: 'Where are you from?' Cadet: 'India, sah!' Mbatten: 'Yes, I can see that.'

We ought to set some traps. float an old boat up and down till some cbut takes the bait. And then strike with a couple of Apaches and some deck mounted Rardens and Javelins that were all previously hidden under a couple of old poncho's.

Reckon that after a couple of succesfull ambushes that word would soon spread...